"One-in-five HR managers reported that they spend less than 30 seconds reviewing applications and around 40 percent spend less than one minute," Rosemary Haefner, Vice President of Human Resources at CareerBuilder said in a study released today.

In the study, 2,298 hiring managers nationwide shared six creative approaches that made a lasting impression on them — and worked on behalf of the applicants:

1. A resume in the form of an "oversized Rubik's Cube, where you had to push the tiles around to align the resume."